Admissions Committee

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Bylaws Information

(Information in italics below is repeated from the Faculty Bylaws Article VIII, Section 8.)

Membership

  • Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • Vice President of Admissions and Financial Planning, administrative officer
  • Registrar
  • Four faculty members, serving two-year terms, with two elected each year. The committee will elect annually in May a Chair from among these four faculty members.
  • Faculty of the Law School are excluded from service on this committee

Duties

  • To recommend to the President standards for the admission of students to the University
  • To establish procedures for reviewing individual applications that are on the borderline of acceptability and collectively making decisions on acceptance
  • To publish periodic reports of its work to the faculty
  • None of the above duties will apply to the Law School.

Information for the Admissions Committee

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Areas of Committee Concern

The committee is responsible for recommending University admission standards to the President; screening marginal applications; and analyzing admission trends.

Policies and Procedures

  • Committee meetings will be convened by the chair, at the convenience of the members, to meet the responsibilities of the committee.
  • Work of the committee includes the evaluation of marginal applications.
  • The Chair of the committee will be elected in May by committee members for the following academic year. The Chair will normally assume duties on June 1 and will serve for one year.
  • The Registrar will provide the committee with the data necessary for admissions trends analysis.
  • All decisions on committee business will be made through normal parliamentary procedure and a majority vote of the members present. A quorum will consist of a majority of the committee membership.

Methods of Reporting To the Campus Community

The Committee Chair will submit a written annual report to Academic Council. On matters deemed to be of general concern, the Council may request that the committee report directly to the faculty.

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